Opinion

Raining on Sunshine Week

It’s fitting that the final week of the state’s 60-day legislative session is Sunshine Week. This year we’ve seen more bills come from the...

Abolish Trapping

    In the past two years, two dogs accompanied by their owners on the Bureau of Land Management property adjacent to residences on Rio...

We Need Natural Gas

    The Land of Enchantment’s job picture is very rosy, but employment growth is not a given. The truth is, we cannot take anything...

Justice for Daughter

   Where is the justice in this county? It has been over six months since my daughter Davina Archuleta was hit and killed by...

Gun Lobby Teams with Sheriffs

    In a shocking display of moral turpitude, the corporate gun lobby has teamed up with sheriffs across the state to protect guns over...

Bill Would Keep Oil Industry Honest

Editor:     The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill became the largest marine oil spill in U.S. history. Three years later British Petroleum was ordered to...

SUN Can’t Put Aside Politics, Personal Vengeance

Editor:     Newspapers do not always print all the facts and truth. Misguided stories written and reported are just living up to the standards you,...

Vote to Change Jemez Co-op

   The root cause of problems that many customers, that is corporation shareholders, experience with the Jemez Mountains Electric Cooperative and its Board of...

El Rito Volunteer Fire Department Key in Response

    Regarding the ‘El Rito Man Dies in Rollover’ article in the Feb. 28 issue of the Rio Grande SUN, it was a coordinated...

Repeal Statute Language on Abortion

Editor:     New Mexico has an antiquated statute on the books that was signed into law before the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Roe v....

Pet Food Fee Would Help Address Spay/Neuter Needs

    New Mexico State Senator Jacob Candelaria picked up where former state representative Carl Trujillo left his animal food fee for spay and neuter...

Bill Would Decriminalize Late Term Abortions

    The majority of people living in New Mexico believe in the sanctity of life. Government’s role, in fact its duty, is to protect...

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